Word: magda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cracking work. Webern's scintillant, fractured Variations for Orchestra, was so full of bewitching sonorities that listeners were just becoming adjusted to it when it ended. A nice antidote to this was Copland's durable old (1925) jazzy Music for the Theater. After the intermission. Hungarian Soprano Magda Laszlo. in her U.S. debut, sang solos in Dallapiccola's song trilogy, An Mathilde; its rich-hued. profoundly melancholy finale had to be repeated after a storm of applause. And Schoenberg's freewheeling arrangement of a Handel concerto grosso, Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (featuring the Juilliard...
...Jersey town of Franklin, sometime Actress Magda (This Thing Called Love) Gabor, fortyish, eldest of the three best-known U.S. glamour imports from Hungary, took a groom, Queens Contractor Arthur ("Tony") Gallucci, 45. Three years ago Mama Jolie Gabor, ageless, had expressed concern about marrying off twice-wed Eva and thrice-wed Magda: "It is difficult to find husbands for them. They are not little Cinderellas. Always they have had the best minks and best diamonds." Week's end brought another groom to the Gabor hearthside. In Manhattan Eva (younger than her mother) married handsome Beverly Hills Surgeon John...
...years that followed, Queen Helen bore Carol a properly royal son, Prince Michael, who twice reigned as King of Rumania. Carol himself tired of Helen and took up with a Rumanian officer's wife named Elena ("Magda") Lupescu. Carol was banished, returned to rule for ten years, and was banished a final time. In 1947 Carol married Lupescu in Brazilian exile, at the side of what he imagined was her deathbed, only to have Magda recover after the ceremony. Meanwhile, in Paris and in other continental haunts familiar to the semi-destitute outcasts of royalty, forgotten Zizi Lambrino reared...
...Lisbon, where Carol had his last legal residence, Mircea got the recognition his mother had longed for. At the conclusion of a suit brought by Mircea Lambrino, a Portuguese court formally declared him to be a true and legitimate Hohenzollern, entitled, along with his stepbrother Michael and his stepmother Magda, to a fair share of Carol's estates, villas and funds. The only problem left was how to talk Michael and Magda out of the money...
...Hollywood, preparing for a Las Vegas nightclub act with her sisters Eva and Zsa Zsa, Magda Gabor let down her red hair a trifle and debunked the glamour life: "We are hard-working career girls-an American success story. We're really hausfraus, and we can cook and press our own dresses and keep house . . . Do you think we like everybody making fun of us, all about rich husbands and diamonds? They don't know it's all been hard work...